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The first day of the new school year is approaching fast!

Things which every student will need for the first day are . . .
a few regular pencils; a set of coloring pencils; an eraser; a ruler; a lunch bag;
a lock for their locker (combination or key - your choice)

Things Lower School students will also need . . . indoor and outdoor shoes.

Things Middle School and Upper School students will also need . . .
an, old fashioned, write-in, agenda/homework book (no computing devices); a pocket dictionary; a few pens (black ink); a binder; lined paper; three-holed note books (one for each subject - 8)

Things Upper School students will need in addition to the above . . .
a Texas TI 83+ graphing calculator and a memory stick.

Go to the Scholars' uniform page.

Please make sure that you have purchased both the required full dress uniform
Lower School (JK to 2); - dress shirt & tie
Middle School (Gr. 3 to 6) - dress shirt; skort or gray dress pants & tie
Upper School (Gr. 7 to 12)] - dress shirt; skort or gray dress pants; tie and blazer
and a day uniform before school begins.

The first day of school - Tuesday, September 7 is a full dress uniform day.

Please note that only uniform articles purchased from Scholars' Hall
and/or from McCarthy's will be allowed.
Articles of clothing purchased from any other source are not to be worn to school.

Uniform Inventory Clear Out Sale
There are some sizes still left. Mostly larger sizes.
Recently, the Ministry of Education announced that full day Kindergarten will be starting this September. As usual, the Ministry starts small, learns from its mistakes and then implements changes over a period of many years. So, in keeping with this historical pattern, 1/3 of the schools in Ontario will start this September. The other 2/3 of the schools have until 2015 to implement full day Kindergarten.The Ministry has already admitted that the curriculum is not ready yet but it will be "play based".
The Ministry has yet to "work out" the employment issues with the teacher's union regarding the hiring of Early Childhood Educators. The Ministry will offer before and after school supervision, for which the parents must pay a fee (yet to be determined) and only if there is enough of a demand.
The Ministry has used the slogan "good for Kids". However, the Ministry will continue to only provide service according to when it is convenient to them (not the two weeks at Christmas; not the week in March; not the last week of June; not the first week of September if Labour Day is late and certainly not all of July or August. Could this be simply that the Ministry still believes it is 1800 and the children are needed to work on the farm or it is a more modern issue of not wishing to awake the teacher's union?). At Scholars' Hall, Kindergarten is full day, everyday, 12 months a year. The only days that we do not have classes are statutory holidays, Saturdays and Sundays. We provide before and after school supervision and our curriculum is a full academic program including phonics, spelling, grammar, reading, writing, arithmetic, science, social studies, Spanish and French. This full day program began five years ago and it was expanded to include Grades One and Two last year. Scholars' has just announced that full year school will be extended to the end of grade six for the next school year.
Maybe the Ministry should come to Scholars' and see how to do it properly!